Program

Miles Davis: Prince of Darkness

Image credit: Tobias Titz

Musical Director: Paul Grabowsky
Premiere performance: Melbourne International Jazz Festival, May 2010

Program Notes

The AAO returns to its jazz roots with a stunning new musical work inspired by the legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis. Widely considered one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz from World War II to the 1990s.

Miles Davis: Prince of Darkness explores this extraordinary oeuvre through new arrangements of his seminal works. The 2010 performance at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival saw the World Premiére of Anthony Pateras' Ontetradecagon, commissioned for this project by the AAO.

Phillip Slater: a featured soloist in the 2010 premiere performance of Miles Davis: Prince of Darkness

Program

Birth of the Cool (Miles Davis)
Concierto de Aranjuez from Joaquin Rodrigo’s Sketches of Spain (Arr. for Miles Davis by Gil Evans)
Orchestrated for the AAO by Eugene Ball
2010 featured soloist: Phillip Slater
Black Comedy (Miles Davis) Arr. Paul Grabowsky
Ontetradecagon (Anthony Pateras) World Premiére
Black Satin (Miles Davis) Arr. Philip Rex
2010 featured soloists: Paul Williamson and Elliott Dalgleish

Ontetradecagon commissioned by the Australian Art Orchestra with the assistance of a grant from the Australian Council for the Arts

Press for Miles Davis: Prince of Darkness

A Tribute to Innovation and Traversing New Ground

Arts Hub  (Zoe Rinkel)  6th May 2010